Another stolen photo from NYPL hits eBay!

[Brendan]

Originally Posted by tcdyess

I think it is down already.

Not true.

[thetruthisoutthere]

The auction is still active on Ebay.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/150654498423...84.m1423.l2649

[tcdyess]

I stand corrected...

[prewarsports]

The weirdest thing about all of this is that the person who cares the most about this stuff is NOT the NYPL. Sort of like the HOF issue with stolen August Hermann stuff. I wish they would come out and announce their intentions to either go after this stuff or not. That way us as collectors can have some type of closure and know whether we should be looking for this stuff or if we are going to see the same people 10 years from now spending time locating this stuff and the NYPL or the HOF not really caring about it either way.

[michael3322]

I agree that the NYPL's lack of clarity over whether or not it is aggressively seeking the return of these items is highly problematic.

Can't eBay be contacted and an official request made to be to end the auction? As far as I know, eBay can't knowingly facilitate the sale of stolen property. Does anyone else have a greater understanding of eBay's policies?

http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/items-ov.html

If the auction is allowed to proceed to its conclusion, the message will be that those who have acquired stolen NYPL items can brazenly use eBay to profit from the sale of these items.

I guess even if eBay won't allow this auction, the seller can always go to Coach's Corner Sports Auctions...

Hopefully the seller will do the right thing and bring a positive conclusion to this otherwise unfortunate situation.

[tcdyess]

Ok, now it is down....

[Brendan]

It was removed by the seller. Either he changed his mind about selling it after seeing that people know where it came from or he worked a side deal.